Whether or not there was a secret agreement, this is what actually happened.
After Silver censured Lopez, the speaker said he won't again enter into secret agreement to settle such claims, saying the public deserves more transparency.
It turns out that, in 1995, Vice President Al Gore signed a secret agreement with then-Russian Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin "which essentially exempted Russia from American sanctions on arms deliveries to Iran, " sanctions that were ironically required pursuant to a statute Mr. Gore co-sponsored when he served in the U.S. Senate.
In the project's first phase, from 1956-59, the Soviets provided support to China via a secret bilateral agreement on defense technology.
Despite the secret 1981 agreement, the two Apples wound up back in court again after Apple Computer started making computers that could synthesize music in 1986.
"The allegation of a secret, unwritten agreement is totally baseless, " says Gary Naftalis, Winnick's lawyer.
"Neither the office of the attorney general nor the comptroller's office, agencies with knowledge of the settlement agreement and the secret payout, raised any objection to inclusion of such a confidentiality clause, " the report stated.
The 1993 interim agreement was reached during secret negotiations in Oslo, Norway.
They negotiate in secret and then emerge to announce their agreement and present it.
At Wednesday's hearing by the panel, Grassley acknowledged that the inspector general at the Department of Homeland Security was involved in the investigation, which Napolitano said was part of an agreement involving her department, the Secret Service and the inspector general.
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Every responsible expert, including senior officials throughout the Bush Administration, know a dirty little secret: in its entirety, the resulting agreement would be unable to ensure that no chemical weapons are covertly produced or stockpiled even by the Soviet Union to say nothing of Third World countries.
Every responsible expert, including senior officials throughout the Bush Administration, know a dirty little secret: in its entirety, the resulting agreement would be unable to ensure that no chemical weapons are covertly produced or stockpiled even by the Soviet Union -- to say nothing of Third World countries.
But the agreement collapsed in 2002 after America said North Korea had admitted having a secret programme to enrich uranium. (The North Koreans denied having made any such admission.) After the agreement collapsed, the North expelled the IAEA's inspectors and announced its withdrawal from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).
And yet, the results of the Non-Aggression Pact and its secret protocol live on while the Nazi-Soviet Trade Agreement holds lessons to this day.
America and a number of other nations have stopped sending fuel oil to North Korea because its secret nuclear programme puts it in breach of a 1994 agreement designed to prevent arms proliferation.
However, this agreement collapsed in 2002 after America accused North Korea of having a secret programme to enrich uranium another possible route to making nuclear bombs.
The leaders of the three communities have held secret talks on ways to redraw the map, but they have not got close to agreement.
"The agreement the university made with the interviewees was that their testimony would be kept secret, and securely in the Burns Library on its main campus, until after the contributors had died, " the correspondent said.
Cardiff made no secret of the fact they wanted him to join United to take advantage of the loan-back agreement.
In 2009, UBS obtained a deferred prosecution agreement for conspiring to defraud the US of tax revenue by creating more than 17, 000 secret Swiss accounts.
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The White House's support of card check, which would do away with the secret ballot for union-organizing elections, and of forcing mandatory arbitration on companies that can't reach an agreement with their unions would artificially increase the cost of labor and hamper job creation.
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